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Pencil Project
Designing “Shorter” Web Forms
Long web forms could be scary for users and they could encourage clients to fly away from your site. Although that, it is difficult to make them shorter, specially if you need all that information you are requesting.
How to Search a Website Using ASP.NET 3.5
Learn some of the new features of ASP.NET 3.5 - including LINQ, Update Panels, Update Progress controls, etc.
The Usability Problems of useit.com
Jakob Nielsen has written some damn smart things about usability, and his work has probably done great things for the web in general. You hate to beat up on a guy like that, but c’mon, it is beyond ridiculous to me to be a self-proclaimed god of usability and have a site as awful as his. I’m not the first one to say it, and I won’t be the last. (Great article on a group makeover from 2004) People have been talking about it for years. Jakob even acknowledges it himself:
Common Traits of Bad Web Design
Lately I have been writing a number of articles that I would consider to be more critical thinking based, so I thought that it may be interesting to do more of an opinion piece. In the past the article I wrote about bad blog design was successful, so I felt covering web design in general could be helpful as well. It is important to note that in this article I am referring to “web design” as the whole process of creating a site, not just the visual aspect.
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox: About Us Information on Websites
We found a 9% improvement in the usability of About Us information on websites over the past 5 years. But companies and organizations still can't explain what they do in one paragraph.
WAI-ARIA Overview
Infinite Scroll jQuery Plugin, and wordpress plugin
Essentially infinite scroll is pre-fetching content from a subsequent page and adding it directly to the user’s current page. A jquery plugin for developers, a wordpress plugin for bloggers, and a interaction design pattern for designers.
Mozilla Labs " Blog Archive " Introducing Ubiquity
How to optimize your blog for code samples plus some cool widgets/tools
Recently I have been posting more and more code samples in my blog and wanted to optimize my blog for code snippets . After some searching I found these set of widgets/tools very useful. This post describes how to use
Blogger Syntax Highlighter to make your code snippets look nice, how to change the width of your blog, How to post an image in its original size to your blog, how to add a Tag cloud, how to add social bookmarking links, how to ping search engines and other ping services, how to add the dzone widget and how to track your visitors.
Almost all these widgets/tools are related to blogger expect for ones like statcounter and PinPoll-n-Ping.
Use Whitespace to Indicate Relationships Between Content Elements
One of the most important tools in a designer’s toolbox is whitespace. Whitespace is just that — it’s space between various content pieces, like paragraphs, headings, buttons and so on. This space can be tweaked to achieve different effects — such as to separate elements apart from each other by increasing the amount of space or group related things together by tightening it.
